Fuggles IPA | Shipyard Brewing Company

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Pours a beautiful golden orange color with a nice creamy white head that slowly sinks to a film and leaves some lovely rings around the glass. The smell is all fuggles as the names suggest, intense english hops with just a hint of sweet malt. Beautiful creamy malt starts the brew off before it transitions into a nice mellow bitterness that the fuggles empart. Extraordinarily creamy and smooth and yet very crisp as well. This is one seriously drinkable brew. It is just getting better and better as it warms too. I have had two of my now favorite IPAs in the last couple of days. Thanks to the Bierman for the bier.

pours an orangey-amber tone with minimal lacing. very nice nose with the classic IPA maltiness full-house with a touch of hop, floral notes. this is a really interesting take on the english ipa...the massive maltiness is beefed up even more with the hops keeping things mysterious. none of the citrusy aspects come through but there is a definite 'bittersweetness' that is delivered. the perfect mouthfeel makes for a lusciousness and, thus, very drinkable. NOT THIN AT ALL. another session beer for sure.

Bright and clear copper, nearly orange in color. I gave it a hard pour to produce a thick foamy 1/2 inch fluffy white head. Head stayed nicely and fell down the glass. Perfectly balanced hop nose and some balanced citrus undertones. Taste was noticibly hoppy as expected, but not bitter or spicy like some others, more restrained flavors, IMO. Nice malty midsection, but really lacked the big biscuit IPA feel. Medium to light bodied, really crisp dry finish. Easy to drink a few of these at a time.

Shipyard IPA is a hazy golden ale with a dense, bubby, off white head that has excellent retention and lacing. The aroma is fruity and grassy with notes of crackers and black pepper. There is note that's almost smokey or ashy and a whiff of wet earth. It's medium bodied, soft, smooth and creamy. The finish is clean. It's good and bitter and the malt balances it out well. It's fruity, resiny and grassy. The aftertaste is of juniper and black pepper. It's so English and so sessionable.

The beer pours forth from the beer engine frothy and clouded. Upon settling, it's a dark, ochrish amber, topped with a thick, creamy ivory head. Sticky laddering lacework. Excellent.
Aroma is very sweet and fruity, more in the vein of an ESB, with big estery apple and juicyfruit gum aroma. Some toasted malt, with a very slight margarine-like diacetyl aroma. Mild citric hops pop through, very subdued. I expected more hops, but this is fine with me. The esteriness is excellent, definitely yummy.
Flavor is much more hoppy, definitely more like an english styled IPA. Some oaky flavor coming through, with sweet toasty maltiness up front. Big estery fruitiness, with some phenolic thinnerlike sensation through your nose. Cidery apple, with a bit of pear and that distinct juicyfruit gum flavor. Hops come in towards the end, providing a citric, lightly piney taste. A pleasant kick, although mild and understated. Some apricot and under-ripened peach. Some citric tanginess in the aftertaste, with lingering esters and a touch of toasty malt. Medium to full bodied, with smooth, creamy cask conditioned carbonation. A light diacetyl margarine buttery flavor coming through, but very slight. Definitely made with ringwood yeast.
Not really what I expected from an IPA, more like a slightly hoppier ESB, but I'm certainly not complaining. Very much in the english style, what I imagine the original IPAs tasting like.

The taste is citrus, a fair amount of juice, a litle Turkish fruit molasses (pekmez), some leaves, and caramelly bread. It's tasty and the flavours, though not incredibly strong, are solidly strong and consistent with good balance of elements and enough complexity to keep it going. Bitterness just barely edges out the sweetness to dominate the finish lightly. it's highly drinkable.